Joanna Coles Talks Photoshop on the 'Today Show'

See how the Today show team looks under the Photoshop wand — and just how altered they can be!

By
The Editors

Apr 08, 2014

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A nip here. Tuck there. In 10 minutes, you're worthy of a swimsuit model contract — without ever having to go under. Just that simple with Photoshop. And many magazines have come under fire for using it to that extent.

That's exactly what Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles visited the Today show to talk about. On a segment called "Love Your Selfie" Coles took the Today team under the Photoshop wand.

The results were pretty dramatic. Take a look:

This is the untouched version of Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, and Natalie Morales.

This is what Coles called "The Cosmo treatment" or the version that Cosmo would have ran in the magazine. It included light touchups, like smoothing out fabric or moving a hand. See all the edits below.

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This version is the extreme retouched version. Basically everything was altered. (Primarily, Lauer has hair now.)